| Hugh Owen, John Brickdale Blakeway - 1825 - 662 páginas
...customs of chivalry, bestowed the honour of knighthood on certain of his most distinguished esquires3'. Hotspur, perceiving that an engagement was unavoidable,...Berwick : which I vainly interpreted of that town in the North4." His courage did not, however, yield to the impressions of superstition ; he rallied his spirits,... | |
| John Burke - 1836 - 766 páginas
...having placed himself at their head, he perceived tb»t an engagement was unavoidable, on which he called for his favourite sword. His attendants informed...words he turned pale, and said, " I perceive that my plongh is drawing to its last furrow ; for a wizard told me in Northumberland, that I should perish... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1844 - 676 páginas
...he then heard for the first time ; he turned pale, and said with much emotion, " Is it so — then I perceive that my plough is drawing to its last furrow,...Northumberland that I should perish at Berwick, which I vainly imagined to be the town in the North." Then rose the terrible cry of " Esperance ! Percy !" then was... | |
| William Cathrall - 1855 - 358 páginas
...customs of chivalry, bestowed the honour of knighthood on certain of his most distinguished esquires. Hotspur, perceiving that an engagement was unavoidable,...Berwick : which I vainly interpreted of that town in the North.' His courage did not, however, yield to the impressions of superstition ; he rallied his spirits,... | |
| 1877 - 276 páginas
...King, instead of Percy. The following is the authentic account, if any one can be so regarded : — " Hotspur, perceiving that an engagement was unavoidable,...Berwick : which I vainly interpreted of that town in the North.' " It is supposed that he stayed at Upper Berwick. PRODD SALOPIAN. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. In... | |
| Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1883 - 694 páginas
...sword, and on being told that it had been left behind at Berwick, he turned pale and said, ' I perceive my plough is drawing to its last furrow, for a wizard...Berwick, which I vainly interpreted of that town in the North.' (OwEN AND BLAKEWAY, History of Shrewsbury, i. 190.) PAGE 105. Gfwsts haunting particular spots.... | |
| Georgina Frederica Jackson - 1886 - 320 páginas
...sword, and on being told that it had been left behind at Berwick, he turned pale and said, ' I perceive my plough is drawing to its last furrow, for a wizard...Berwick, which I vainly interpreted of that town in the North.' (OwE.v AND BLAKEWAY, History of Shrr icxtniry, i. 190.) PAGE 105. Ghosts haunting particular... | |
| 1891 - 392 páginas
...Hotspur having placed himself at their head he perceived that an engagement was unavoidable, on which he called for his favourite sword. His attendants informed...he had till then learned the name. At these words be turned pale and said, " I perceive that my plough is drawing to iti list farrow, for a wizard told... | |
| 1891 - 538 páginas
...Hotspar having placed himself at their head he perceived that an engagement was unavoidable, on which he called for his favourite sword. His attendants informed him that it was left behind a* Berwick, of which village it does not appear that be had till then learned the name. At these words... | |
| Arthur Granville Bradley - 1920 - 418 páginas
...Berwick, of which place till that moment he had not heard the name. Turning pale, he exclaimed : " I perceive that my plough is drawing to its last furrow,...Berwick, which I vainly interpreted of that town in the north ". Even the bravest of the brave, on whom the gilded youth of all England had modelled themselves... | |
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